69 thoughts on “Libra”

I tried, but I was unconfortable with their API policy.
It basically states that any data uploaded to their servers becomes their exclusive property, and withholds full access to it from third-party apps, even if the data was uploaded by that app in the first place.

I’m not the only dev with these worries and they’re aware of the issue. If the terms change, I will get back to this.

Most of the answers to those questions are in the FAQ.
Anyway, quickly: Variance is the difference between the trend and the real weight for that day. It gives a sort of “speed” of your weight change.
The blue line is your diet plan, as defined in the diet plan preferences, and the red line is the trend line.
The FAQ has a very nice link explaining the trend line.

Hi,
fantastic program, its my favourite app. When I export my weights to a csv file it gives two columns for my weight both similar but different. Which column is the right one? Also when recording weight.

The action bar in the current market version is based on the official Android support samples. You can find it via their developer blog posts, or in the Android dev resources.

However, I strongly recomend you to use ActionBarSherlock: http://actionbarsherlock.com
It’s better in every possible way. The only drawback is that it only supports Android 2.1+, but that accounts for most Android devices nowadays, anyway.
The next version of Libra will use that library.

I have used this app for a long time now and the only problem I have is easy sharing of data among my android devices. It would be great if my data could be held online, maybe in google docs, so that I can record entries on either my Galaxy S or Galaxy Tab and have it appear on both.

Love the program and love the idea of adding percent bodyfat. I am having one problem. Just upgraded phone to RAZRMax and now the graph won’t rotate whe i turn the phone horizontally. Other apps do rotate.

Sorry, I don’t know what the problem could be.
It might be related to Libra disabling hardware acceleration for the chart. This will be fixed in the next version, so all I can say is please wait and try again when the update comes along.

Libra is a great app, I currently use libra on my htc phone running ginger bread, I have just brought a tablet but its running ICS and I have been trying to find the directory that libra is installed to so I can copy my phones csv file across to the tablet, yet I can’t find it. any ides where it could be or another way of importing the file to my tablet.

Hi
I was looking for a very long time, and did not find the place in which to enter the amount of body fat, water, muscle and weight of the weighing scales which operates on the principle of bioimpedent. From this you can count the number of things, how much we have lost muscle tissue and how much fat. From this you can count the number of things, how much we have lost muscle tissue and how much fat, etc. BMI is sux is wrong… Perhaps we could write something like. It would be very popular…

I’ve got a suggestion: What about providing some additional weight goals, i.e. lines? Not as a substitution to the “weight goal” we can set right now, but something like a visual reminder: “Don’t get over that weight”, “this is your next step to your target weight – then you’re entitled to BURGER TIME”, “Don’t slip under this weight” usw.

Hey Cachapa, just out of curiosity, why did you decide to take this project from open-source back to closed source?
And related to that, did you accept any code from 3rd parties while “Libra” was published under GPLv3 that is still being used in the now closed-source app?

Libra hasn’t been open source for a long time now.
The reason is simple: I wanted to have some sort of monetary return for the app (ads), which is a bit incompatible with having it open-source.
Also, after about one month of it being published, someone copied the app wholesale and published it under a different name. I realized that I wasn’t really comfortable with that.

As for code contributions, I never got any. Don’t worry, I’m aware of the requirements for GPL. If there had been GPL code inside, I’d either have contacted the authors for permission, or removed that code.

Thank you very much for the app. It’s really nice and that’s why a bought the pro version.
Now i’m wondering if you plan to make it for iOS too. i’ve friends that don’t wan’t android and have iPod or iPhone and i seek for apps like yours and they suck!

Hello, I love Libra
However, now I want to add all the entries from my previous logging (from a selfmade database).
I was planning on exporting all the entries from my own database to a CSV format compliant with Libra, then importing them to Libra, however, I don’t understand the last column in the Libra CSV. It seems to be standard deviation or something.
- Do i need this column for the numbers i want to import?
- If i need them, how to i calculate them?

Hi Daniel, I just switched phone and I was thinking about data import/export in this case. Why not build a simple service to store these info on the cloud? The space/bandwith required would not be too much (just a few bytes of text).

I like this application but I wish that I users could set the increments. For example, my scale at home goes to the nearest half pound, the scale at my gym goes to the nearest .2 pound, etc. If I could set the scrolling belt to be .5, that would be awesome!